Rosberg disappointed to miss out on Montreal pole

Nico Rosberg made no effort to hide his personal disappointment, but remained defiant, after his Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton beat him to pole position Saturday for Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix.

The 29-year-old German, who has reduced the defending champion’s lead to just 10 points with two successive wins, said his bid for pole all went wrong in the final Q3 part of qualifying at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

Rosberg had outpaced Hamilton on soft tyres in Q1 and was on the pace in Q2 on the 'super-softs' when an unexpected problem struck on the changeable track and he began to lose rear-end grip with his car.

He said: "Everything was going really well, I felt comfortable in attacking and then everything went really wrong in Q3.

"I just had less rear grip, the team thinks it knows why, but we need to analyse it. It's really disappointing for me as I just completely lost it there.

"There wasn't any major changes [between Q2 and Q3]. We just lost a lot of rear grip.

"The first lap in Q3 was really good, actually, but the lap time was nowhere. It just went wrong, in the end. That sucks."

He added that he was not giving up on winning the race.

"It is disappointing," he said. "But fair play to Lewis.

"And, of course, the race is tomorrow so I still have good chances as here you can overtake so it's not over yet."
Source: AFP